taken 7 years ago, near to Smethwick, Sandwell, Great Britain

These substantial Victorian villas are now mostly let as flats. There seems to be a fairly rapid turnover of tenancies given the number of 'to let' boards in evidence. These houses when built may well have been owned by landlords of the thousands of back-to-back houses in the central areas of Birmingham of which only a handful survive in a state of preservation. See Link for some images of them.